Checklist, done, done!
Nov. 11th, 2018 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coolohohBeen a good weekend. I haven't accomplished that much but I guess I'm also right on track.
So... I downloaded Arashi raws... About half a year's worth of raws? Cos yes, it's been that long since I downloaded any. Took me like the whole day yesterday and this morning to finish downloading. Not actually, I started on Friday night too. Or something to that effect.
Then there was journaling. I've been pretty good at keeping up to my usual journaling stuff this week... Ok not really... I missed three days. But I did make up for the calliarts stuff on Friday, during the calliarts session with my cousin, my sis and her friends... So I only had a bit of journaling to do yesterday morning. Easy peasy. Just write anything. But then I've recently bought a photo printer. Well during my 'holiday' before my new job. And then I've printed a whole bunch of photos like... The week before? My last day of work. My new job etc. So I finally got down to it and cut those photos out and pasted them in yet another journal. I did it previously with my regular printer printed pictures. Print quality is absolutely horrendous. But it was nice flipping back at those pages and seeing the photos. And the dates when that particular event took place. So yeah. That's partly the inspiration for buying the photo printer I guess. So that took me all of late afternoon, till midnight. Cut. Stick. Write. Minor decorations. Yeah there was a long dinner + tv break... But still. It took hours! I'm please with the result though. At least it's nice to flip through and see the photos. Of old friends and of my new workplace. And other photo worthy events in between. I freaking finished TWO glue stick tapes. Granted, both were half used... But still! That was A LOT of sticking. Now that journal book is getting pretty darn bulky. Good choice to use a thin muji notebook for such purposes. Ha! And well, I have too many notebooks and I need to use them up too. So it's all good.
Anyway. My office. The building is really pretty darn nice. Lovely pantry. Pantries. Not all pantries are made equal. Some floors have bigger pantries than others... Like the level 3 pantry even has a foosball table and billiard table! I've only been there twice, but both times people came to used those facilities... Making it quite a noisy place to have lunch!
Been ordering food from this app called PLUM a lot. Way too much maybe. They buy food from curated, partner hawker stalls and restaurants, and deliver them to a collection point across the road from my workplace. Which makes it really, really convenient. No need to queue! There's only one pathetic food court near my workplace and as expected, it's super crowded. Sure there are tons of nice restaurants... But PLUM offers cheaper alternatives... And you don't have to queue. Even those restaurants... You have to be there early else it's a long queue. So I would pick up my order downstairs and head back to one of the bigger pantries to have lunch. And usually there'll be someone else in the team who'd join me in the pantry, if we didn't already meet on the way to get PLUM.
So that's the way things are now. Work is good. And challenging. But the need for self motivation and well, stamina is greater than ever before. I'm fine in the lab, sure. But reading journal papers? Like... Kill me now! I tend to want to erm. Fall asleep? By gawd. I really suck at studying. Lol. My focus tends to wander off and... I'll be looking at my phone. Or well... Falling asleep? Well as I read more and gain more background knowledge it'll help though. I'll be able to read faster, zoom to in to just want I need etc... But now. Arghs. Still so tough. I got a bit of enlightenment the other day and breezed through a couple of papers. Till a new topic came around then... *vomits blood*. Reading way too slowly. I need to read faster. How long do people take to read papers? Ok... Just did a little search. I guess people do take a few hours or even days to read a single paper. Oh wells. I think I could do a lot faster though. There's too many things to read.... It was nice when they talked about something in the meeting and I'd just read a whole bunch of papers on that topic the day before though. Yeah. I just need to get through all that backlog of background papers... Then going forward it'll just be whatever is newly published in my field. Sure there's other fields to branch out into... But let's get the basics, the stuff in my immediate area of work done and down. It's not that easy though... Because there's like at least two areas my work branch out into. Oh wells. It shall have to be done.
PI came up to me on like Fri and he was like 'you must have read the paper on XXX by now right?'
Thankfully yes, I did actually come across and read that paper. Like just a day or two ago. Phew. Can you imagine if I'd read any slower? Gosh. As much as there is nothing for me to do most of the time, since I don't actually have a project yet and am just a free floating organism... And can have days when I just sit around and read... And sure I could sit around and sleep all day and no one would care. But well, those papers still need to be read and digested so... Ain't gonna happen in my sleep I'm afraid. Oh wels. I've been hardworking and trying to make little summaries as I read though. And boy making the summaries take a long time. Sometimes longer than reading the paper itself. But I guess I'll get better as I go along. And it's also proof that I've read a paper. More to myself than to anyone else I guess. That I've done 'work' and that I've progressed. Otherwise I'd just sit around staring at the words blankly or sleeping. Yeah.
But really... I'm happy. Scared sure, since this is all new territory. But happy. It's like. I haven't laughed in years. Finally. I'm happy. And the thing about having something so engaging for my mind is that.... It's like... I don't need anything else. I'm satiated. I don't wanna listen to podcasts though I still do... Because I want to think about stuff. And games... Well... My appetite for games has greatly diminished. It's like in the movie the King and I when the king found the perfect girl and if he could have her he wouldn't need anyone else. Gosh. This is life. This is living. I'm alive.
But at the same time... I'm also more motivated to do stuff. To set to-do lists for myself and actually do the stuff that I've set out to do. Like making SF and NM posts. Ok. I don't know how long I can keep this up... But I'll try. Heck. Nothing else I can do but try. And at work it's a case of 'perform or die'.
That's all for today.
Till next time.
So... I downloaded Arashi raws... About half a year's worth of raws? Cos yes, it's been that long since I downloaded any. Took me like the whole day yesterday and this morning to finish downloading. Not actually, I started on Friday night too. Or something to that effect.
Then there was journaling. I've been pretty good at keeping up to my usual journaling stuff this week... Ok not really... I missed three days. But I did make up for the calliarts stuff on Friday, during the calliarts session with my cousin, my sis and her friends... So I only had a bit of journaling to do yesterday morning. Easy peasy. Just write anything. But then I've recently bought a photo printer. Well during my 'holiday' before my new job. And then I've printed a whole bunch of photos like... The week before? My last day of work. My new job etc. So I finally got down to it and cut those photos out and pasted them in yet another journal. I did it previously with my regular printer printed pictures. Print quality is absolutely horrendous. But it was nice flipping back at those pages and seeing the photos. And the dates when that particular event took place. So yeah. That's partly the inspiration for buying the photo printer I guess. So that took me all of late afternoon, till midnight. Cut. Stick. Write. Minor decorations. Yeah there was a long dinner + tv break... But still. It took hours! I'm please with the result though. At least it's nice to flip through and see the photos. Of old friends and of my new workplace. And other photo worthy events in between. I freaking finished TWO glue stick tapes. Granted, both were half used... But still! That was A LOT of sticking. Now that journal book is getting pretty darn bulky. Good choice to use a thin muji notebook for such purposes. Ha! And well, I have too many notebooks and I need to use them up too. So it's all good.
Anyway. My office. The building is really pretty darn nice. Lovely pantry. Pantries. Not all pantries are made equal. Some floors have bigger pantries than others... Like the level 3 pantry even has a foosball table and billiard table! I've only been there twice, but both times people came to used those facilities... Making it quite a noisy place to have lunch!
Been ordering food from this app called PLUM a lot. Way too much maybe. They buy food from curated, partner hawker stalls and restaurants, and deliver them to a collection point across the road from my workplace. Which makes it really, really convenient. No need to queue! There's only one pathetic food court near my workplace and as expected, it's super crowded. Sure there are tons of nice restaurants... But PLUM offers cheaper alternatives... And you don't have to queue. Even those restaurants... You have to be there early else it's a long queue. So I would pick up my order downstairs and head back to one of the bigger pantries to have lunch. And usually there'll be someone else in the team who'd join me in the pantry, if we didn't already meet on the way to get PLUM.
So that's the way things are now. Work is good. And challenging. But the need for self motivation and well, stamina is greater than ever before. I'm fine in the lab, sure. But reading journal papers? Like... Kill me now! I tend to want to erm. Fall asleep? By gawd. I really suck at studying. Lol. My focus tends to wander off and... I'll be looking at my phone. Or well... Falling asleep? Well as I read more and gain more background knowledge it'll help though. I'll be able to read faster, zoom to in to just want I need etc... But now. Arghs. Still so tough. I got a bit of enlightenment the other day and breezed through a couple of papers. Till a new topic came around then... *vomits blood*. Reading way too slowly. I need to read faster. How long do people take to read papers? Ok... Just did a little search. I guess people do take a few hours or even days to read a single paper. Oh wells. I think I could do a lot faster though. There's too many things to read.... It was nice when they talked about something in the meeting and I'd just read a whole bunch of papers on that topic the day before though. Yeah. I just need to get through all that backlog of background papers... Then going forward it'll just be whatever is newly published in my field. Sure there's other fields to branch out into... But let's get the basics, the stuff in my immediate area of work done and down. It's not that easy though... Because there's like at least two areas my work branch out into. Oh wells. It shall have to be done.
PI came up to me on like Fri and he was like 'you must have read the paper on XXX by now right?'
Thankfully yes, I did actually come across and read that paper. Like just a day or two ago. Phew. Can you imagine if I'd read any slower? Gosh. As much as there is nothing for me to do most of the time, since I don't actually have a project yet and am just a free floating organism... And can have days when I just sit around and read... And sure I could sit around and sleep all day and no one would care. But well, those papers still need to be read and digested so... Ain't gonna happen in my sleep I'm afraid. Oh wels. I've been hardworking and trying to make little summaries as I read though. And boy making the summaries take a long time. Sometimes longer than reading the paper itself. But I guess I'll get better as I go along. And it's also proof that I've read a paper. More to myself than to anyone else I guess. That I've done 'work' and that I've progressed. Otherwise I'd just sit around staring at the words blankly or sleeping. Yeah.
But really... I'm happy. Scared sure, since this is all new territory. But happy. It's like. I haven't laughed in years. Finally. I'm happy. And the thing about having something so engaging for my mind is that.... It's like... I don't need anything else. I'm satiated. I don't wanna listen to podcasts though I still do... Because I want to think about stuff. And games... Well... My appetite for games has greatly diminished. It's like in the movie the King and I when the king found the perfect girl and if he could have her he wouldn't need anyone else. Gosh. This is life. This is living. I'm alive.
But at the same time... I'm also more motivated to do stuff. To set to-do lists for myself and actually do the stuff that I've set out to do. Like making SF and NM posts. Ok. I don't know how long I can keep this up... But I'll try. Heck. Nothing else I can do but try. And at work it's a case of 'perform or die'.
That's all for today.
Till next time.
